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178 lake Mœris; and Mucianus, a peron of great authority, and frequently cited by Pliny, ays, that it is 450 mille paus. Now 450 × 8 = 3600.

I with to repeat here in ome degree what I before mentioned curorily repecting the Olympic foot and the Olympic tadium. We are told by Aulus Gellius, that thee meaures exceeded the others in the ame proportion as the foot of Hercules did that of ordinary men. The foot, we hould recollect, was uppoed to be one ixth of the height of the peron. But what mut we think of the tature of Hercules, hould the length of his foot be reduced to eight Roman inches What mut we think of the common race of mortals at that time, when he who is decribed, "corpore excemorem quam alios " was only of the diminutive ize above decribed?

I agree with Mr. Barré, that it is probable that Pliny copied Herodotus in his account of the thicknes and height of the walls of Babylon: but his account is very incorrect, and inconitent with the original, as Mr. Barré, and before him Salmaiius, had oberved. If the royal cubit was three digits longer than the common